You've come out of hibernation! Watch out for those snows down under, though!
You're missing the point massively, as usual. So what if the particular tunes on a bone flute aren't remembered. We don't know if they have or haven't found their way into other cultural leanings. But it shows that music was around for about 350x the time we've had fixed recordings of music. However, what really breaks your argument is that we've had actual music available for most of the last 500-1000 years (5-10x the label era) which is still known. Seems like a lot of composers and folk tunes got well known enough to survive, when only written down or played to a new generation. Besides, given that a CD may not be readable in 50 years, let alone 1000, it's hardly much more permanent than that bone flute...
Did home piracy tank the construction market, depress third-world countries and cause the bail-out of numerous banks and car firms? No? Then maybe you should stop saying the equivalent of "From the year before WW3 to the year after, recorded music incomes went from a gajillion times any other industry to still more then their fair share..."
Unfortunately, whether we're talking about the Stasi, the Romanian Securitatae, or the Nazi secret police, it's all totalitarian, and all about ending freedom.
Hasbro will become a big baddie, I suspect. The toy industry has had it too good, too long, and are ripe for disruption. Think how many overpriced toys could be built at home using a decent printer and plans.
LEGO is in deep doodoo as well, although that would only be poetic justice for the way they stole someone else's ideas and product line.
There's a bigger point here than the corruption and cronyism of one country. Even though US corruption and cronyism is largely responsible for this mess in the first place!
But that only works *if* the schools buy into it and get 'the latest' books. If they decide to only change 'official' books every few years, then that is less of a problem?
Maybe akin to you leaving a telescope in your back yard, and someone comes and uses it secretly at night to scope out a neighbour's windows. Are you the peeping tom/potential burglar? Are you negligent for 'allowing' someone to 'commit' a (potential) 'crime'?
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You've come out of hibernation! Watch out for those snows down under, though!
You're missing the point massively, as usual. So what if the particular tunes on a bone flute aren't remembered. We don't know if they have or haven't found their way into other cultural leanings. But it shows that music was around for about 350x the time we've had fixed recordings of music. However, what really breaks your argument is that we've had actual music available for most of the last 500-1000 years (5-10x the label era) which is still known. Seems like a lot of composers and folk tunes got well known enough to survive, when only written down or played to a new generation. Besides, given that a CD may not be readable in 50 years, let alone 1000, it's hardly much more permanent than that bone flute...
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LEGO is in deep doodoo as well, although that would only be poetic justice for the way they stole someone else's ideas and product line.
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It's only a few weeks since the Olympics ended here and I'm already in withdrawal!
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